December 2010
“I was watching the news one day, and I saw footage about, what, the war, and I...”
– Aldous Snow
Frank O’Hara, ‘Christmas Card to Grace Hartigan.’
There’s no holly, but there is the glass and granite towers and the white stone lions and the pale violet clouds. And the great tree of balls in Rockefeller Plaza is public. Christmas is green and general like all great works of the imagination, swelling from minute private sentiments in the desert, a wreath around our intimacy like children’s voices in a park. For red there is our blood which,...
“The 111th Congress made more law affecting more Americans since the ‘Great...”
– Just a reminder
Nice pants: yay, Illinois →
nicepants:
Cynical thought of the day: When covering the general assembly this spring, most days they would adjourn early — by 3 p.m. — without taking any meaningful action. Some say it was so they could collect their per diem and get out of there. I hate to be that cynical but when Rome is burning and…
“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world, whereas nothing rises...”
– Augustus Hare, c. 1870 (via laphamsquarterly)
“When seen at a height or a distance, from across the Hudson River or from the...”
– City Light - Lapham’s Quarterly
davidcho:
Kanye West feat. Pusha T, Cyhi Da...
“NASA’s geobiologist Pamela Conrad thinks that the discovery is huge and...”
– Nerds.
Global power: The dangers of a rising China →
That headline seems a little misleading: The piece is really about why America and China, though “bound to be rivals,” do not also have to be “antagonists.” This makes sense, and doesn’t get talked about enough, and way to go, Economist.